Believe it or not one of British wrestling's most iconic stars pushes trolleys along the corridors of Northwick Park Hospital on a daily basis.

A Harrow hospital porter for nearly three decades, Steve Young, better known as Steve Lee Curtis, is also a wrestling legend.

The 58-year-old Abbots Drive resident reached the peak of his fame in the 70s and 80s during British wrestling's golden era and made a name for himself with signature moves like side headlocks and dropkicks.

He was crowned British light middleweight champion in 1987 after beating Bobby Collins with a single dropkick in the first round.

But what not many people know is that Steve was never meant to fight that day.

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Speaking to getwestlondon, Steve said: “I wasn’t actually supposed to fight that fight – it was supposed to be another wrestler but he got injured or something happened and he couldn’t appear.

“So they set the fight up for me and I thought I’d give it a shot you know. I just thought to myself 'I might as well do it – if I lose it doesn’t make a difference and if I win then I’m going to gain'.

“My big thing at the time was dropkicking people and I jumped up and dropkicked him on the side of the head after knocking him down and that knocked him completely out – and that was it, I won it in the first round.

“People said ‘you must be really skillful’ but really it was just pot luck – hitting him in the right place at the right time.”

In 1987 Steve won a national championship (Image: Steve Lee Porter)

According to Steve wrestling is “a way of life” and while he still considers himself a wrestler, and was set to make a big comeback at the age of 50, several heart attacks put an end to his time in the ring.

He said: “It was the heart attacks that forced me to leave wrestling. I had one on the eve of a big comeback - it was all in the papers that I was set to have a huge comeback when I was 50 but just shortly after that I had several heart attacks.

“It turns out I have a hole in my heart which if I knew when I started wrestling I probably wouldn’t have ever started.”

Steve has been a porter at Northwick Park Hospital for 29 years (Image: Steve Lee Curtis)

While Steve never set out to become a hospital porter he has now worked at Northwick Park for 29 years.

He said: “I never wanted to become a porter but wrestling came off the telly in 1988 and I wasn’t doing as many shows, I’d just got married and we’d had a kid, I wasn’t bringing in enough money just from the wrestling so I took the porter job on and I’m still there 29 years later.”

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When asked if he's ever used his wrestling skills at the hospital Steve said he's only had to wrestle a patient to the ground once.

He said: “I've only used my wrestling skills once as a porter and that was about 15 to 20 years ago.

“I was in A&E and one of the patients went a bit beserk and needed calming down so as there was no security around at the time I pinned him to the ground and waited until the police got there - but it was a one-off, it's not a regular thing I do.”

Steve Lee Curtis (top) was a big name in the 70s and 80s (Image: Steve Lee Porter)

During the golden years of British wrestling fights would happen at big venues including the Royal Albert Hall.

He said: “Fights would normally happen at the town halls – most of them really, I fought at Ealing Town Hall and even the Royal Albert Hall.

“Since I learnt my trade there are loads of wrestling clubs around where you can go and try it out. It was different for me, when I learnt my trade it didn’t cost me a penny but nowadays you have to pay.”